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Dynamical phase transitions in the relaxation behavior of stochastic quantum walks are investigated, focusing on systems where coherent unitary evolution is periodically interrupted by dephasing. This interplay leads to a classicalization…

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An approach to the description of subdynamics inside non-relativistic quantum field theory is presented, in which the notions of relevant observable, time scale and complete positivity of the time evolution are stressed. A scattering theory…

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Stochastic methods with quantum jumps are often used to solve open quantum system dynamics. Moreover, they provide insight into fundamental topics, as the role of measurements in quantum mechanics and the description of non-Markovian memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Andrea Smirne , Matteo Caiaffa , Jyrki Piilo

We show that all non-relativistic quantum processes, whether open or closed, are either unitary or probabilistic unitary, i.e., probabilistic combination of unitary evolutions. This means that for open quantum systems, its continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Le Hu , Andrew N. Jordan

Completely positive trace preserving maps are widely used in quantum information theory. These are mostly studied using the master equation perspective. A central part in this theory is to study whether a given system of dynamical maps…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Bihalan Bhattacharya , Uwe Franz , Saikat Patra , Ritabrata Sengupta

We propose a scheme for data-driven parameterization of unresolved dimensions of dynamical systems based on the mathematical framework of quantum mechanics and Koopman operator theory. Given a system in which some components of the state…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-09 David Freeman , Dimitrios Giannakis , Joanna Slawinska

An open quantum system with multiple levels coupled to a bosonic environment at zero temperature is investigated systematically using the non-Markovian quantum-state-diffusion (QSD) method [W. T. Strunz, L. Di\'osi, and N. Gisin, Phys. Rev.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 Jun Jing , Xinyu Zhao , J. Q. You , Ting Yu

We review the standard treatment of open quantum systems in relation to quantum entanglement, analyzing, in particular, the behaviour of bipartite systems immersed in a same environment. We first focus upon the notion of complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Benatti , R. Floreanini

A dynamical symmetry is employed to determine the structure of the quantum non-Markovian time-local master equation. Such a structure is composed from two components: scalar kinetic coefficients and the standard quantum Markovian operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-19 Roie Dann , Nina Megier , Ronnie Kosloff

The time evolution of the one-point probability vector of stochastic processes and quantum processes for $N$-level systems have been unified. Hence, quantum states and quantum operations can be regarded as generalizations of the one-point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Bilal Canturk

Dissipative phase transitions in quantum systems have been largely studied under the so-called Markovian approximation, where the environments to which the systems are coupled are memoryless. Here, we present a generalization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Baptiste Debecker , John Martin , François Damanet

By exploiting the peculiarities of a recently introduced formalism for describing open quantum systems (the Parametric Representation with Environmental Coherent States) we derive an equation of motion for the reduced density operator of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Giovanni Spaventa , Paola Verrucchi

The transient dynamics of quantum coherence of Gaussian states are investigated. The state is coupled to an external environment which can be described by a Fano-Anderson type Hamiltonian. Solving the quantum Langevin equation, we obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Md. Manirul Ali , Chandrashekar Radhakrishnan

Markov processes play an important role in physics and the theory of open systems in particular. In this paper we study the asymptotic evolution of trace-nonincreasing homogenous quantum Markov processes (both types, discrete quantum Markov…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Jaroslav Novotný , Jirí Maryška , Igor Jex

Einstein-Smoluchowski diffusion, damped harmonic oscillations, and spatial decoherence are special cases of an elegant class of Markovian quantum Brownian motion models that is invariant under linear symplectic transformations. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 C. Jess Riedel

We study how some recently proposed noncontextuality tests based on quantum interferometry are affected if the test particles propagate as open systems in presence of a gaussian stochastic background. We show that physical consistency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Benatti , R. Floreanini , R. Romano

Numerical simulation of individual open quantum systems has proven advantages over density operator computations. Quantum state diffusion with a moving basis (MQSD) provides a practical numerical simulation method which takes full advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Schack , T. A. Brun , I. C. Percival

Quantum theory provides an extensive framework for the description of the equilibrium properties of quantum matter. Yet experiments in quantum simulators have now opened up a route towards generating quantum states beyond this equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-24 Markus Heyl

Capturing non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems is generally a challenging problem, especially for strongly-interacting many-body systems. In this work, we combine recently developed non-Markovian quantum state diffusion techniques…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Stuart Flannigan , François Damanet , Andrew J. Daley